Northumberland Prosperity Study
Angier-Griffin, in partnership with
Local Living,
recently completed a socio-economic study of social
enterprise activity in Northumberland, funded by
Northumberland County Council.
Click
here
to download a copy of the Report.
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AnyBodyCan leads Quality & Impact study at Norcare
An
AnyBodyCan
project team led by Philip Angier led conducting a
quality and impact study with supported housing providers
Norcare
and
Aquila Way
The demonstration pilot, funded by the Northern Rock
Foundation, studied the use of the Outcomes Star*
both as a toll for support planning with service users
and as a means of aggregating data about quality and impact
as management information and quality improvement tool.
Click
here
to download a copy of the Project Report
The organisational learning from this study is being
continued with the placement of an ESRC Research Student
from Newcastle University School of Accounting.
Further work on the application as the Outcomes Star has
been led by Philip Angier working with
Newcastle Healthworks.
* More information about the Outcomes Star can be found at
www.homelessoutcomes.org.uk
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Mapping
Social Enterprise Activity in North East of England
Angier
Griffin
was commissioned by the North East Social Enterprise Partnership
(NESEP) to map the development of social enterprise activity in
the North East on England over the past four years. Philip
Angier’s report, now published, offers encouragement to those
who believe in the importance of the sector with evidence of
growth both in the number and economic contribution of social
enterprises in the North East.
Click here
to download a copy of the report
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Conversations with a Social Entrepreneur
Philip Angier has collected and edited a series of
his articles originally printed in Social Enterprise magazine. They
encompass a broad range of issues faced by young and growing social
enterprises from cash flow crises to marketing dilemmas,
team-building to warnings against taking ourselves too seriously.
Intended to be read at leisure ‘with a cup of fair
trade coffee or a glass of fair trade wine to hand’ – you can browse
the articles on the web or download them as a .pdf file.
Click here
to download Conversations with a Social
Entrepreneur
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DIY Guide to Social Return on Investment
In July 2007, the New Economics Foundation published its DIY
Guide to Social Return on Investment (SROI). SROI is a method for
measuring and reporting the social, environmental and economic
outputs of an organisation and giving those outputs a financial
value. SROI compares the value of benefits against the cost of
achieving the benefits. The ten stage guide is available free from
their website. However, you will have to register to access the
publication.
For further
information please follow
this link.
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Proving and Improving – a quality and impact toolkit for social
enterprises
The
quality and impact toolkit for social enterprise was launched
by New Economics Foundation and the Social Enterprise Partnership in
July 2005. Angier Griffin and the Valuing the Difference project
have been actively involved in the development of the toolkit, which
has been developed as a result of the Social Enterprise
Partnership’s EQUAL project.
The
Toolkit may be viewed (and downloaded as a pdf) on
www.proveandimprove.org
For
further information e-mail:
imPROVEit@neweconomics.org
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How much should we pay ourselves?
Philip Angier tackled the thorny issues of pay, rewards, wealth,
consumption and sustainability in a talk to Durham Diocese’s Off
the Radar study group on 2nd June.
Click here
to download a copy of the talk.
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Seizing the Opportunities
and Overcoming the Barriers for Refugees wanting to set up their own
businesses in the North East.
Angier Griffin
has
recently completed and published this report. Funded by ONE
NorthEast and compiled in partnership with the Regional Refugee
Forum North East, the report list 19 recommendations for improving
access to business support services for the new refugee communities
now settled in the North East.
Click here
to download a copy or contact Philip Angier (Cost £3.00 including
p&p)
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Lesson Learned the Hard Way
– a disarmingly
honest look at how to grow up as a social business, published by the
Furniture Resource Group, Liverpool with support from Esmee
Fairbiarn Foundation. For copies contact:
www.frcgroup.co.uk
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Social Enterprise in Anytown
–
a new book arguing the importance of social enterprise in tackling
disadvantage by community development expert, John Pearce.
Published by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation copies can be obtained
from:
orders@centralbooks.com |
